is it just me or has the quality of writing in scientific articles gone way down in the last few decades. like, compare a JACS article from, like, 1970 to one written today. nobody writes for clarity anymore
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Might have something to do with oppressive rent (and the ethics that support it) in distribution
Also, Capitalism is the answer to most rhetorical questions about why things suck
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@AceNovo yeah I'm guessing that publication space is at such a premium and competition for it so fierce that a combination of having to compress papers to squeeze more into a journal, and having to churn out like twenty papers an hour just to be able to keep your job, means that scientific papers turn into a soup of abbreviations and jargon
